This project is aimed at bringing to life the history of St. Louis and the region through the unique lens of public policy. The purpose of this project is to provide researchers, students, and the general public with a greater understanding of our region’s history, development and missed opportunities. I cannot be held responsible if this project depresses you–my hope would be that it instead inspires you to create/shape better, more inclusive and empathetic public policy. These documents...
Topic: st. louis county, digiproject
Focus Midwest Volume 15 Number 93
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 8/21/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Sent by Charles L. Farris, Executive Director of the St. Louis Housing and Land Clearance Authorities. June 1966
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, Urban Renewal
Volume 1 No. 7
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, issue dated 8/28/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Taken from the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis Oral History Collection, interview conducted in 1974 of Negro League Baseball player and long time St. Louis Argus Newspaper sports writer, Normal "Tweed" Webb.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, Negro League Baseball
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 7/14/1922
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 2/23/1917
Topics: Mayor Henry Kiel, Louise Abbott, "The Unborn" movie, birth control, lynching, Supreme...
A short but informative history of the city of Creve Coeur & surrounding cities, published in 1968 by he Citizens' Historical Committee.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, History, St. Louis County
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 9/22/1916
Topics: metropolitan conservatory of music, vivian baber, charles daniels, ywca, ymca, poro college, annie...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 2/6/1920
Topics: black newspaper, Citizens Liberty League, J.N. McKelvey, Jim Crow, Lincoln League, Republican...
Focus Midwest Volume 8 Number 53, St. Louis
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 5/8/1925
Topic: black newspaper
From FOCUS Midwest Vol 9, Number 61 1973-1974
Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 6/25/1965. Part II in the Melvin Cravens Saga
Topic: St. Louis
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 2/27/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 3/3/1916 Very significant issue: Segregation Law Passed
Topics: segregation law, poro college, ymca, ywca, pythian hall, webster groves, kirkwood, meacham park,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 5/7/1915
Topics: dreamland ball, ymca, ywca, poro college, segregation, tuskegee institute, sumner high school,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 1/16/1920 Big Story on Lincoln League, viewed as major national push for civil rights through politics by African Americans, a third party movement.
Topics: black newspaper, Lincoln League convention, Lincoln League, Citizen's Liberty League, Governor...
Volume 2 Number 10
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 2/13/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/17/1919
Topics: black newspapers, socialist, Curtis Diamonds, Anti-Lynching Delegation, Poro College, YMCA, YWCA
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 1/22/1915
Topics: Independent Equal Rights League, the great wall, A.H. Phoenix, National Negro Business League, H.S....
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 1/9/1920
Topics: black newspaper, Citizen's Liberty League, Poro College Christmas Dinner, Webster Groves, Rolla,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/9/1915 Note neat Jack Johnson/Jess Willard Advertisement on last page. Overall an excellent quality issue
Topics: Dr. W. Samson Brooks, farmington, webster groves, east st. louis, temperance movement, Democratic...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 1/28/1921 Issue suffers from very light print--due in part to poor quality of film scanned, I've done my best to make it readable.
Topics: st. louis, black newspaper, memphis, gasoline explosion, A.W. Lloyd, President Taft, Negro rights,...
Volume 5 Number 6
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 8/4/1922
Topic: black newspaper
ACTION Blue Paper report published in 1970 provides a narrative history of police brutality from 1965-1970, beginning with the murder of Melvin Cravens a handcuffed youth shot in the head. The report contains a fascinating look at the various efforts made on the part of the community towards the creation of a civilian review board, and the political push back. Also included is a detailed spreadsheet containing every black man/woman/child brutalized or killed by white officers between 1965 and...
Topics: St. Louis, police brutality, ACTION, Percy Green, Civil Rights
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 1/2/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Volume 2 No. 1
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 3/9/1917
Topics: supreme lodge, ymca, ywca, poro college, wheatley branch, Frank Williams, Dr. C.H. Turner, Malone,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 11/19/1915
Topics: Booker T. Washington, funeral, wheatley branch, J.E. Moorland, ymca, ywca, mayor henry kiel,...
By Ernest Calloway Associate Research Director Central Conference of Teamsters
Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/25/1918
Topics: black newspaper, Tuskegee Institute, World War One, Colored Soldiers, Black Soldiers, Bond Issue,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/11/1915
Topics: birth of a nation, riot, bishop c.h. phillips, Rev. A.A. Gilbert, poro college, annie malone,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 12/20/1921
Topics: black newspapers, Eugene Field School Mass Convention, Frank Slater, Republican Party, Pan African...
Volume 6 Number 3
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 9 Number 1
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 12/25/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 9/2/1921 Fascinating article regarding Provident Association in second half of issue.
Topics: black newspaper, Klu Klux Klan, Walthall Moore, negro league baseball, st. louis giants, Naacp,...
Published by the St. Louis Housing Authority, a partner program conducted by the St. Louis Community Development Agency and the Cochran Gardens Tenant Management Corporation.
Topics: stldigiproject, St. Louis, Public Housing, Cochran Gardens
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 8/5/1921
Topics: black newspapers, Shriner Parade, Attorney General, Supreme Court, President Harding, Anti-Lynching...
Official Newsletter of the St. Louis Pine Street YMCA, a landmark African American institution in the Mill Creek Valley community. Originally scanned from microfilm at the State Historical Society of Missouri- St. Louis (With permission from the archivist)
Topics: St. Louis, African American, Mill Creek Valley
Official Newsletter of the St. Louis Pine Street YMCA, a landmark African American institution in the Mill Creek Valley community. Originally scanned from microfilm at the State Historical Society of Missouri- St. Louis (With permission from the archivist)
Topics: St. Louis, Mill Creek Valley, African American
Found in the State Historical Society at UMSL, Vince Schoemehl 2nd term papers, from Governing Magazine 1988 March.
Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
The following document is a "progress report" published by the City Plan Commission for the BoA, 1970, on the 'innovative' Operation Breakthrough program in St. Louis.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, Operation Breakthrough, Urban Renewal
Written by Peter Downs, published in St. Louis Journalism Review. Vol 22, Number 149 September 1992
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, Klotzer, Civic Progress
The following is a small booklet published as part of Mayor Raymond Tucker's primary campaign against Alfonso Cervantes in 1964-65. The book outlines Tucker's accomplishments in terms of physical, economic and social change brought to the city of St. Louis between 1952 and 1965. This item was drawn from the Ernest Calloway Papers located at the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis, and is part of an on-going digitization effort.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, St. louis, Raymond Tucker, Alfonso Cervantes
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/6/1917
Topics: madame c.j. walker, Miss Hallie Q. Brown, William A. Quayle, "The Voice on the Wire",...
Informal History Submission
Topics: St. Louis, Des Peres
Volume 2 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, FOCUS Midwest
Official Newsletter of the St. Louis Pine Street YMCA, a landmark African American institution in the Mill Creek Valley community. Originally scanned from microfilm at the State Historical Society of Missouri- St. Louis (With permission from the archivist)
Topics: St. Louis, African American, Mill Creek Valley, YMCA
This oral history comes from the Oral History Collection (makes sense). The interview conducted by Chris Chrenshaw, is of the former (I think) Pastor/Friar at Saints Mary and Joseph Catholic Church in Carondelet Robert Sydlowski. The interview was conducted on November 15th, 1993. The discussion touches on many topics including life in St. Louis growing up, catholic life in St. Louis and baseball.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, Oral History, Catholic
From the City Data Collection at the State Historical Society of Missouri St. Louis
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, st. louis
Prepared for the National Science Foundation, RAND Corporation
Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 7/21/1922
Topic: black newspaper
Focus Midwest Volume 11 Number 71
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Before I donated my postcards depicting sites in Cleveland Ohio to the Public Library in Cleveland I took a few minutes to quickly scan as many as I could grab--most depicted in this file are from my downtown/park folder. A few are cut off due to a hasty scan job.
Topics: Postcards, Cleveland, Ohio
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 2/4/1916. Note: Text is difficult to read on several pages, perhaps some work could be done to clean up this issue for future reading.
Topics: lincoln institute, madame motin, charity carnival, dr. w. s. brooks, race hate, whitman sisters,...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 1/30/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Focus Midwest Volume 12 Number 76
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
From the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis Municipalities Collection.
Topics: St. Louis County, digiproject, St. Louis
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 1/4/1918
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, issue dated 2/20/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 5/6/1916
Topics: ymca, ywca, Susie M. Taylor, poro college, ACME Laundry, E. Hawkins, negro business league, madame...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/28/1921 Interesting Cover Page story discussing comments made by President Harding regarding racial equality, limits his words to "political equality"
Topics: black newspapers, President Harding, tarred and feathered, klu klux klan, Roosevelt, Colored...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/21/1921
Topics: black newspaper, Klu Klux Klan, New York Mayoral Declaration, Knights of Pythian, Victor Miller,...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, dated 6/18/1965. Part 1 of the Melvin Craven (Youth Handcuffed and shot by police) incident
Topic: St. Louis
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 11/13/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Focus Midwest Volume 8 Number 55
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 7/15/1921
Topics: black newspapers, Klu Klux Klan, Howard University, Annie Malone, Poro College, East St. Louis Race...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 6/2/1922
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 12/23/1921
Topics: black newspaper, Christmas Edition, Second World Colored Congress, B.F. Bowles, YMCA, YWCA, Pine...
